Migrants who come to Europe for sporadic work are excluded from social assistance despite contributing to unemployment insurance, social security or even retirement, a report by the European Trade Union Institute shows.
A new report released by Border Forensics concludes that migrants have almost no chance of surviving when crossing the desert from Niger to Libya. Ever since the introduction of border control laws in 2015, migrants have been forced to take more remote and deadly paths, according to Border Forensics.
Police have evicted around 400 people, mostly Chadians and Sudanese, from a derelict building in the Paris region. The area will eventually host the athletes' village during the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
A French territory located off the coast of Southeastern Africa plans to demolish foreigner-populated informal settlements and deport dozens of undocumented migrants back to their country of origin. While the local population and elected officials support the project, others express concern.
Earlier in the week on Tuesday evening, a group of more than 200 young migrants alongside several organizations, who work with migrants and asylum seekers, occupied an abandoned school in Paris' 16th arrondissement.
The decree preventing aid groups from distributing food to migrants in Calais has been deemed as "disproportionate" by a government commissioner who said the ban has "the effect of complicating the access to basic necessities of precarious populations".
Every year, hundreds of people go missing on their way to Europe. While the Mediterranean Sea is infamous for being one of the deadliest migration routes, other places such as the Sahara desert are also extremely dangerous. InfoMigrants spoke with Lucile Marbeau, spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
At least 10,000 migrants employed by Italian farms live in substandard housing, according to a report published on Tuesday. In these settlements, basic services such as access to water or electricity are nonexistent. A phenomenon that favors the exploitation of migrants.
Two years ago Franck* was living in difficult conditions in a migrant camp on the Greek island of Samos. Now, he and his family have been offered a home in a welcome center in France and they have a future to look forward to at last.
The migrant camp at Palos de la Frontera, in the southern Spanish region of Huelva, was ravaged by a fire at the weekend. About 100 shacks were destroyed and one person, suffering from burns to the arm, had to be admitted to hospital. The camp was home to hundreds of undocumented migrant workers who were picking fruits and vegetables in the region.
What exactly is this outpost set up by the French authorities on Italian soil, close to the border with France? Police agents there hold migrants they pick up before they can enter France illegally for a few hours. Migrants who are held in this place receive a document refusing them entry to France and are handed over to the Italian police. Local migrant rights associations have denounced the process, saying it is illegal.
Authorities in Laayoune, Morocco have been subjecting sub-Saharan migrants to constant harassment, an Ivorian in the city has told InfoMigrants. He said scores of migrants are being arrested and detained every day and "danger is everywhere."